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A Tobago woman accused of receiving two stolen black-belly sheep in 2024 has been freed after a Scarborough magistrate dismissed the case.

Senior Magistrate Alicia Chankar ruled the matter was dismissed for want of prosecution and noncompliance after the charging officer failed to appear in court and prosecutors did not disclose their full file to the defence as ordered.

Attorney Yves Jacques Nicholson, who represented the woman, who asked not to be named because of the stigma associated with the allegation, criticised the police’s actions as intrusive after the magistrate’s ruling.